Elastic link.



J. J. JACOBS.

ELASTIO LINK.

A-YPLIOATION FILED APR. 4.190s.

Patented June 29. 1909.

Z veud pX/MWY art to which it JOHN J. JACOBS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.-

ELASTIC LINK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 29, 1909.

Application filed April 4, 1.908. Serial No. 42s 34.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,-JOI1Z\' J. JACOBS, a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, and a citizen of theUnited States,'have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Elastic Links, of which the following, when taken in connection with the drawing accompanying and forming a part hereof, is a full and complete description, sullicient to enable those skilled in the pertains to understand, make, and use the same.

This invention relates to attachments applied to suspenders, belts, and other articles of wearing apparel. l

The object of the invention is to obtain an attachment made of metal, preferably of sheet metal, which may be used on suspenders to attach the button ends thereof to the webbing which covers or passes over the shoulders of then carer, and which will obviate the necessity of using elastic webbing, and which may be used in belts, and for other purposes.

A further object of the invention is to obtain an attachment of the kind named which, in addition to being so constructed that the yielding or elastic character thereof will permit its use as an elastic member, will be sightly in appearance, economically made, and not liable to get out of order, and durablc.

in the drawing referred to, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a device embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a device embodying the invention, showing one end of the front of a suspender attached ther to. Fig. 3 is atop plan, or end view, of a device embodying this invention. l ig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the elements of the device. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a rod or roller used as an element in the device. Fig. 6 is a modification (if the spring forming an eleinentin the device. Fig. 7 is an additional modification of the spring forming an element in the device; and Fig. 8 is a plan viewofa blank from which the sheet metal portion of the device is formed or bent up.

A reference letter applied'to designate a given part is used to indicate such part throughout the seve"-- figures of the draw ing, wherever the same a pears.

A, (Fig. 8), is a blank cut or stamped out from sheet metal. a, a, arebroken lines on which the blank A is bent to form a channel which the U or inverted U-shaped piece B may move. a and a" are broken lines on which, also, the blank A is bent to set thi part a of theblank out so that the webbing of the suspenders, (lcttered ll), may be passed underneath such part a. 1), D, are apertures or holes in blank A, through which, after the blank is formed upon the broken lilies a, a, and off, a pin or bar (E), is passed and secured, as by riveting, or heading. The wires or bars E may have a shoulder thereon, and also the roller Il (as is shown in Fig. 5), if preferred. A bar or rod E is also secured in the inverted U-shaped movable piece B, and this bar or rod may also have a roller thereon, if preferred. G is a spring, inserted in the channolsformed by the bends a, a, of blank A, sothat the upper end of the spring abuts against the upper one of the rods. or bars E, and also against the movable inverted U-shaped piece B, yieldingly holding such piece l3 near to the lower one of the bars or rods F in the frame obtained by bending up the blank A.

G, Fig. v6 and G,'Fig. 7, are, respectively,

modifications of the spring G, and may be substituted therefor.

H is the webbing of a suspender, (or of a belt or other like article), and l is the .0rdi nary adjusting device on suspender webbing.

'lhe several parts or elements of the device are assembled as follows: After the blankn is cut out and formed up the lower bar or pin E is p'utin )lace and headed: and then the inverted U- raped piece B, (with a wire E headed tli'erein iis put in the channels ellthe device, a spring G, (previously formed up) is placed in the channels and on the U-shaped piece 13, and an additional pin or rod or bar E- is put in placein the remaining holes 1), 1), in the sheet metal part of the device and riveted or headed.

To use the device the webbing H is put through the aperture it between the pin or bar E and the part a of the device, and through the aperture 7/. The webbing is then brought up a1 fastened, as by the adjusting device 1.

J, J, are ends of a suspendcrv'hich are provided with button holes, and such ends are passed through the aperture it, to rest on the lower one of the bars or rods E. \(Vhon thus arranged any strain on the buttoned ends and sustained by the upper end of the webbing H will be received (in .the spring which will be compressed thereby. AnclaS- tic loop is thusobtaincd whichmay be used- Having thus described my inventicn and the construction'cf a device embodying the same, What I claim as new and desire to es;

I webbing to pass over cure by Letters Patent is,- i 1'. A frame provided with attached to the frame at the ends thereof to close the ends of the channels, the portion of the frame between the channels and adjacent togone of thef'endbars arranged to permit webbing to be passed between the frame and the end bar, a'bar parallel ts end bars and arranged to zncve in channels, and a spring interposed between the movable bar and the end bar at one end cf the frame, the bends-ofthe spring arranged tcfit andmove in thechannels', such movable and the remaining end barjseverally arranged to permit described; I 2. 'Anelastldiog comprising a frame pro vided withchanne s, .means to close one of theends of the channels,'-a spring provided with bend ass with straight portiensbe tween the bei'idsfsuch" bends-arranged to move the 'channeis and the channels ar the bars E, E, may be by any other suitable means,

frame to an article, a spring in so that one end thereof channels, bars end thereof is movable and the other them; substantially as ranged to guide and retain the. spring in open ative form, a webbing arranged to pass between the frame and the spring, and operatively connected'to said spring, such spring arranged so that one end thereof abuts against the means whereby the ends of the channels are closed, and the other end thereof yieldingly holds the webbing.

with parallel channels, means to c ose' such chaimels. at one end of the frame, and means at the other end of the frame to attach the the channels, the spring arranged abuts against the means whereby the ends of the channels are closed at one end of the frame andthe other end thereof is movable,

Land means to attach the movable end of the spring vto an article; substantially as described. I

, 4t. Thecombination of a frame provided with parallel channels and provided with a connecting plate arranged to stand out from and 111 a plane in front of the plane in which the channels lie, with means to close the ends of the channel at one end of the frame, a spring in the channels end thereof abuts against the means whereby the ends of the channels are closed, means to attach an article to'the frame and means to ettach an article to the movable end of the. spring;substantially as described.

JOHN J. JACGBS. "In'the presence of- Crmntns TURNER BROvVN, Gone a. .ADAISIS. r I

3. The colnbina tion of a frame Iprovided arranged so that one 

